Textual Technology ePortfolio
For this assignment, we used Twine to remodel fairy tales into choose-your-own-adventure stories. As a storytelling device, I think Twine was a lot more engaging than traditional methods of reading. The use of the second person and customization of the …
For my first experiment in text production, I attempted to separate an egg from its sac. Prior to print, egg yolk was added to paint as an adhesive to help it stick to pages in medieval manuscripts. This was a …
EarlyPrint is a digital collaborative effort that relies on editors to suggest corrections to transcriptions of early English texts. The goal is to create a linguistically annotated and searchable archive of the early English print record. My assigned text for …
The first part of this assignment involved completing the exercises on the University of Nottingham’s website where I had to practice transcribing medieval manuscripts. The handwriting was almost illegible to me and I felt like I was reading a different …
The goal of this exercise was to complete a descriptive bibliography where I analyzed the bibliographic code of a text. The term “bibliographic code” refers to the material traits of the book which includes its binding, cover, spine, etc. In …
